The recent official presentation of certificate of Obaship to His Royal Majesty HRM Oba Muyideen Babatunde Balogun, the Onisolu of Solu-Alade Kingdom in Ibeju-Lekki Area of Lagos State has continued to raise questions amongst the ruling houses.
A Lagos High Court, sitting at the TBS Annex, ordered the newly installed Oba Babatunde Balogun and his agents, to halt all activities of governance, over the town.
Justice Oyindamola Ogala, who made the order as a vacation judge, in an interlocutory injunction application, held that the order will subsist until the determination of the legal tussle, over the Obaship of the town.
The claimants, Chief Ganiyu Olofinbada Somoju and Sikiru Olofin had filed the application, asking the Court to order the defendants to maintain status quo, pending the hearing of the main suit before Justice Onigbanjo.
They are also instituting charges against the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (1st defendant), State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice (2nd defendant), Commissioner & Ministry for Local Government and Community Affairs (3rd & 4th defendants), the Chairman of Ibeju Lekki Local Government (5th defendant), and the Head of Balogun Family, Alhaji Mutalibi Balogun (7th defendant).
The claimants in a suit no LD/6179GCMW/19 had filed an originating process dated April 23, 2019.